Commonwealth v. Clanton

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Bell,

Defendant was indicted and tried' for murder. The jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree and fixed the penalty at life imprisonment. After defendant’s motion for a new trial was dismissed, he appealed to this Court.

The jury could have found from the Commonwealth’s evidence and from the reasonable and legitimate inferences therefrom that the Commonwealth proved beyond a reasonable doubt the following facts:

Jeff Clanton, the defendant, and his alleged wife, Robbie Mae, were separated. During the afternoon and early evening of August 24, 1957, Robbie Mae…